Wednesday
Apr202011
Brian Smith on Doubt part 2
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ChapmanCast & Pearse Frazier | Wednesday, April 20, 2011
ChapmanCast & Pearse Frazier | Wednesday, April 20, 2011 In this episode, Pearse and the Rev. Brian Smith continue their conversation about doubt. They discuss the place of prayer in times of doubt--even when people may doubt the very God to whom they pray. And doubt doesn't have to be all doom and gloom. How can doubt be "the servant, if not the friend of truth"?
Wondering about the inspiration for this article? Look up the New Church, which is based on the theological writings of Emanuel Swedenborg.
Reader Comments (1)
Brings to mind "A Grief Observed" by C.S.Lewis where from the agony of his grief he writes "Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him." Later in this same book he writes. "You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it? "
I wonder if we can truly say we believe in God or anything else without being confronted with questions or doubts.